AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH, KANGAROO ISSUES, SMALL MULTIPLE WATERMARK

Lot 569		Estimate: $150 Realised Price : $145 6d Chestnut Plate 3 Ash imprint block of 4 including variety 'White Hairline from Value Circle to Map' (3L54), very fresh with three units MUH. BW 22(3)z, cat AU$450
Lot 570		Estimate: $70 6d Chestnut solo franking cover (central crease) tied by fine strike of scarce Sydney handheld roller cancellation to 1932 cover per R.M.S. 'Narkinda' to Switzerland, paying double foreign letter rate, backstamped on arrival. (The liner Narkinda SS, Capt. L. Parfitt DSC, was serving as an auxiliary transport during the Allied landings in French North Africa in November 1942. She disembarked her troops at Bougie and had turned about for home when, toward evening on the 14th, she was bombed and sunk some distance off Bougie. Thirty-one persons were killed)
Lot 571		2/- Maroon CTO with neat corner datestamp, full OG and MUH. BW 39w, cat AU$125
Lot 572		Estimate: $400 Realised Price : $300 2/- Maroon Plate 1 Ash imprint pair (N over A), superb fresh MLH. BW 39(1)za, cat AU$1000
Lot 573		2/- Maroon punctured 'OS', full MUH CTO, perfect centering, BW 39wa
Lot 574		Estimate: $500 Realised Price : $380 5/- Grey and Deep Yellow punctured Small 'OS' centred upper right otherwise very fine MUH. BW 44b, cat AU$2500
Lot 575		Estimate: $600 10/- Grey and Pale Pink optd SPECIMEN Type C very fine MUH. BW 49x, cat AU$1250
Lot 576		Estimate: $550 10/- Grey and Pale Pink overprinted SPECIMEN Type C sub-type 2 with Shaved 'P', couple of shortish perfs at base, large part OG and lightly hinged. BW49xd, cat AU$1750
Lot 577		£2 Grey and Crimson overprinted SPECIMEN Type D, well centred and lightly hinged. BW 57x, cat AU$900